On 2003-06-24 18:50:00, Anonymous (Pepper) wrote:
I wish I could take away everyones pain, I know it sucks. I was just trying to help I guess. Peace to all.
Thanks, but I've got it handled. I'll admit it was tough at first, striking out into the world as an escapee from an alleged drug rehab with little support, no education and a nagging neurosis over so many things. Where was all the Straightling love 20 years ago? Oh yeah, that's right. They were trying to have me arrested and court ordered back into the gulag. I can't imagine how much worse it would have been if I'd actually had an addiction to deal with at the time.
But that was 20 years ago; before my dad defected from the cult, before I became a mother, before I married my husband, build a business, bought a house and all the rest.
I'm not doing this--the forum and other muck raking--to treat some relentless pain over things past.
To draw an allegory, if I see a house on fire, I listen for sirens. If I hear the sirens, I know they've got it handled so I might get out my camera and take pictures to sell to the local paper. If I don't hear the sirens, I don't have time to take pictures. I'm calling the fire department. It's not some strange response to early trauma involving fire. I like to think that if anyone saw my house buring down they'd do the same; if only for their own safety to prevent it spreading to the next house.
As I've said dozens of times before, I'm doing this because I found out that this same cult is still messing with kids, largely on public (my)funding and in defiance of law. Very few people who haven't been through it first-hand really understand what's going on there, so few are sounding an alarm. It's different from crimes like robery, rape and securities fraud. Everyone clearly understands that those are crimes and the victims are entitled to redress. Nothing I have to do there but read the headlines and pull for the good guys.
But this is different. Every day, this industry shanghais and tortures hundreds and thousands of kids right out in the open. They even advertise mercinary kidnapping services that use shackles and drugs to abduct young adults without a warrant or trial. And most people just say "ah well, ya' know, teenagers can be 'difficult'" :eek: Difficult!
Jenny, just a year ago a kid tried to make a run for the picket line after open meeting. According to some folks who used to do a lot of picketting, that happens a whole lot. I'm sure that if the Sarasota branch had had protestors, I would have anguished over whether or not to give it a shot and certainly wouldn't have tried very hard to stop anyone who did.
Right in front of all the parents, group members tackled this kid to the ground and stuffed him, kicking and screaming, into a car. The parent driving the car then fled the scene before the cops could arrive. When the cops got there, Brian and some other parents presented some other kid to lie to them and tell them it had been him pretending to try and run, but he'd just been fooling around. (
what's the first and most impotent rule??) We all have a pretty good idea what the other kid's next week or so was probably like. But there's no help for him or a few thousand others like him. The cops bought the utterly transparant fiction and stonewalled, refusing to initiate any serious investigation.
I have to confess, it pisses me off that people like you continue to help these sadistic lunatics cover up their crimes. I have a pretty good idea why you do it and I know there's not an ounce of mallice behind it. I think you're just duped. And that's sad.
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
--Martin Luther King
